>>If you're running windows boxen behind your FreeBSD server, then (at least >>I think) the EASIEST way to solve your problem is to run IRC clients on >>yoru windows boxen which contain identd servers to themselves. This > >This is correct, but doesn't help the actual problem because internal boxes >never get those ident requests. > >The scenario here is that upon connecting to an irc server, the server asks >from your BSD server's identd who the heck that user is. FreeBSD's identd >server has no way of knowing that this request should be forwarded to a >NAT'ed windows box X. So, there will never be an identd request from irc >server to MIRC to respond to. The working behaviour could probably be >achieves so that the identd server on FreeBSD examined NAT state data and >forwarded requests appropriately (if the server was configured to forward >them - this could be security risk too). > >You could, of course, redirect all identd requests coming on your FreeBSD >box to the internal windows box, but this would break the BSD box pretty >badly. (e.g. login timeouts when using FTP) - and there could be only one >computer in your private LAN that'd use ident. > >One solution might be to use an appropriate proxy/bouncer in the FreeBSD >box and connect to it using IRC clients, but I wouldn't want to do that. I went back through my notes from earlier this year, and alas discovered that I never did solve the problem you're describing. And at the time of my posting a response to your answer, I guess I wasn't awake enough to fully absorb the question. Simply put, I'd like to apologize for posting a useless answer that didn't help in the slightest :) Regards, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
